Nick Denton

The shell of Gawker has settled with Hulk Hogan for $31 million, ending a years-long fight that led to the media company's bankruptcy, the shutdown of Gawker.com and the sale of Gawker's other sites to Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.

Gawker founder Nick Denton in a Wednesday blog post said that the "saga is over."

The invasion-of-privacy case, which revolved around a sex tape posted on Gawker.com, resulted in a $140-million verdict won by the former professional wrestler in a Florida court. It became even more notorious when it emerged that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel had secretly bankrolled the suit. Thiel was outed as gay by a Gawker-owned...

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The shell of Gawker has settled with Hulk Hogan for $31 million, ending a years-long fight that led to the media company's bankruptcy, the shutdown of Gawker.com and the sale of Gawker's other sites to Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.
Gawker...

In the wake of its recent legal defeat at the hands of a billionaire-backed former pro wrestler, beleaguered news company Gawker Media on Friday filed for bankruptcy protection in New York, listing the recent $130-million judgment against it as by far its...

What's newsworthy?That's the legal question at the heart of the Bollea vs. Gawker Media trial in St. Petersburg, Fla., which revolves around a videotape showing the wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry G. Bollea, having sex with the wife of a...

Hulk Hogan is the character; Terry Bollea is the person. But both of them were "completely humiliated" when Gawker ran highlights from a secretly recorded video showing him having sex with a friend's wife.
"I was embarrassed by what it did...

Last week the gossip site Gawker published a story apparently outing a heterosexually-married New York media executive of high social class, connections and reputation. The material came from a gay male escort who had tried and failed to persuade the...

Two of Gawker’s top editors resigned Monday after management deleted a story about an executive at Conde Nast who allegedly tried to book an escort.
Tommy Craggs, executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, editor in chief of Gawker.com, said they...

Gawker Media editorial employees voted overwhelmingly to unionize Wednesday, making the company the first major online-only media outlet to organize.
Employees voted 80 to 27 in favor of joining the Writers Guild of America, East. Gawker Media includes...

As union membership declines, even modest unionization efforts take on symbolic importance. Each case seems like a sign of things to come. Success or failure at the individual level seems to portend success or failure for the broader movement.
That's why...